One of Denver's all-time great Sports yappers is appearing all this week on 104.3 the Fan.

Marc Moser is filling in for Mike Evans all this week, partnered with Joel Klatt mornings from 6-10.

Moser is super talented - which is why he's no longer a fixture on daily Sports Radio.

He has been the radio play-by-play voice of the Colorado Avalanche since 2007. 

Prior to becoming the man in the booth for the Avalanche he produced their radio broadcasts, worked as an in-studio host on Altitude TV and manned the phone lines for the radio program "Avalanche Talk". His relationship with the team dates back practically to the time they first moved from Quebec.

Moser has also called auto racing, Canadian Football and High School Sports both in California and in Colorado.

We remember him best for his work at the Fan. Like most talk jocks, Moser was partnered with various dudes over the years. We liked him best with Sandy Clough, although it always fun to listen to him giving Mitch Hyder shit for riding a scooter.

As good as Moser is at hockey play-by-play (which is really hard to do), it's great to hear him back behind the mic, chatting it up at the Fan with Joel Klatt.

Tonight: the Denver Post Editorial Board calls for the firing of Dan O'Dowd, CarGo is in the Home Run Derby (not that ESPN is aware), Peyton made a commercial for a car he would never drive and we ask the question ... will they ... or won't they?

Peyton Friggin' Manning is making headlines by filming a commercial in Tennessee for the Buick Marano, a car he will never, ever drive unless he's being paid to.

Here's the teaser that the local TV stations will all be playing this evening.

The general idea is that Manning "calls audibles" using the cars voice-activation system.

Hilarious.

Tiger Woods was a spokesman for Buick for very long time but it wasn't a Buick he was driving when Elin tried to murder him with a set of golf clubs. That's because nobody under the age of 65 would be caught driving one.

Welcome to the Shitty  Cars of Englewood #4

Within only blocks of the concrete bunker we find some of the junkiest jalopies in all of Colorado. It's not like us to keep this bounty to ourselves. Oh, no. We want to share it with you, our loyal readers.

Today we highlight this beautiful yet utlitarian 1986 Chevy Cavalier wagon which has suffered some minor front-end damage.

The Cavalier Wagon was available from 1985 to 1987. It was build on General Motors "J platform" and was nearly identical to the Pontiac Sunbird. It replaced Chevy's legendary Vega wagon. It's introduction was met with understandable fan fare. 

Like the 1984 Ford Thunderbird we profiled in the Shitty cars of Englewood #3, this Cavalier typifies both the styling and the quality of mid-1980's American automobiles.

Notice the stylish, sweeping lines. Twin square headlamps flank either side of a tasteful plastic grill. Protective rubber strips run the length of the vehicle, protective in from door dings and adding decorative flair. Plastic sport mirrors add to the aggressive look.  A ferocious 2.0 liter fuel-injected power plant provides the thrust.

A classic American grocery getter with panache.

For Colorado 2012 is a lost cause - but did fans glimpse the future on Friday night?

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(via Deadspin)

What do you do when your fanbase is even shittier than your football team? Inviting fans of rival teams to fill seats in your stadium might work, right?

Well, that's what the San Diego Chargers are doing.

Representatives from the team have been contacting Chiefs bloggers via e-mail and offering them bargains on ticket packages in order to avoid future blackouts. Qualcomm is known for not selling out.

The Chiefs blog, Arrowhead Addict reports it's editor was contacted:

"I got the below graphic, complete with an invitation for the “Arrowhead Addict’s” to come on down to San Diego on November 1st for the Chiefs/Chargers Thursday Night Football smackdown. Apparently, the Chargers would rather invite fans of the opposing team to come to the stadium rather than face the shame of being blacked out on a night they are playing a nationally televised game"

This marketing effort is just so sad and pathetic that all we can really do is point and laugh.

Jason Giambi loves playing for Colorado - but he probably won't for much longer.

The MLB trade deadline is about three weeks away and most folks think that, before it comes, the Rockies will move Giambi. 

Troy Renck wrote about this today for the Denver Post. 

According to Renck's piece, Giambi probably would have been shipped off Philly last season if he hadn't injured his calf right before the deadline.

Giambi's contract is up at the end of this season - which is one reason to suspect that he's out of here. Marco Scutaro is in the same boat, as is Jeremy Guthrie. Renck believes all three are likely to be goners.

As Renck put it, "There won't be a mass exodus. But there will be some exits. This is what happens when teams fail to meet expectations and begin playing for next year in July."

(via Pro Football Talk)

It's the slowest part of the year for NFL chatter but there's always a story out there if you dig hard enough. This story is proof of that.

It seems that Peyton Manning is pretty jazzed about the fancy new technology the Broncos have rolled out this season. Playbooks on Ipad are likely to become the standard in pro football circles but, for now, the Broncos remain one of only a handful of teams using them and P.F.M. is digging it.  He told Pro Football Talk: “It’s easier for the video guys to send it to all the different players, and it’s a great way to study for these guys. There’s no excuse not to have the playbook and the game film to study.”

Broncos video director, Steve Boxer, says: “He was one of the first guys I dropped video into an iPad for.”
According to PFT blogger, MIchael David Smith, "Not only do they have all the plays like a standard paper playbook, and all the video that players would watch in team meetings, but the iPad also has all the team’s schedules, travel itineraries, and a notification that pops up to remind players about their next team meetings."

No word yet as to which Broncos player have gotten to the highest level of Angry Birds.

Rockies season ticket holders recieved an email today from Dick Monfort promising that the team will do a better job communicating with its fan base.  From now on Dan O'Dowd will do the talking:

We thought that the Twitter battle between Mile High Sports' moring show, Mile High Club, and 104.3 the Fan's Evans and Klatt was too good to be true. Today it got more awesome.

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